We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest. . . That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.